The experts suggest that while PSAs are good, the National Mining Company of Uganda currently lacks expertise to manage, warehouse, quantify, value and to report minerals. They suggest that unlike in the oil and gas sector , PSAs in the mining sector are very risky.
The reelection of President Donald Trump , the change in energy politics and landscape combined with the emergence of new poles could breathe new life in Uganda's oil and gas sector.
Most gold from the DRC was smuggled through Uganda and Rwanda and, to a lesser extent, Burundi (some of the gold from South Sudan also transited through Uganda and 60% of the gold from Uganda.
